Join the Adventure

On the Road with Erin Connors
Teacher, traveler, parent, and activist, life currently finds me in Western North Carolina, where my role as the white mom of a biracial family fuels my passion for issues of social justice.

We’re fortunate to have the opportunity for some fun and adventure along the way, and I’m particularly interested in those places where four people with divergent tastes and personalities happen upon those perfect — often unplanned — moments where everyone is enthusiastic: an unexpectedly yummy tamale, a landscape perfect for romping, a shop heavy on sloth imagery.

My writing has been featured in or recognized by the Asheville Citizen-Times, Lonely Planet, the Journal for Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, and the Writer’s Workshop of Asheville. Though my interests are varied and my experience wide-ranging, some of my favorite pieces remain those of local interest I wrote for my good old hometown paper, the Minneapolis Uptown Neighborhood News.

Though writing is a vein running through my life, sometimes (often times) I have to bribe myself to sit down and do it. A cappuccino, a baked good, a bit of chocolate — no added flavors, nothing fancy, just straight up –these usually do the trick.

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The great writers keep writing about the cold, dark place within, the water under the frozen lake or the secluded, camouflaged hole. The light they shine on this hole, this pit, helps us cut away or step around the brush and brambles; then we can dance around to the rim of the abyss, holler into it, measure it, throw rocks in it, and still not fall in. It can no longer swallow us up. And we can get on with things.– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“The only thing that determines whether you are a writer or not is whether you are doing the action of writing. So if you are not writing every day, get back to work.” — My friend Moni